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...rush to produce the fleet might make military sense if they were needed, but the last time Marines stormed ashore - the key reason the taxpayers are spending $14 billion on the San Antonio and at least eight more ships just like it - was nearly 60 years ago, at Inchon during the Korean...
...outmanned and outgunned South Korean army. Even the intervention of U.S. soldiers five days later, assisted by a United Nations force, could not stop the advance until it had reached the Pusan perimeter, in the country's extreme southeast corner. But General Douglas MacArthur's bold amphibious counterattack at Inchon, behind the enemy lines, rolled back the North Koreans and resulted in the capture of their capital, Pyongyang. Just as the war appeared to be winding down, Chinese armies poured across the Yalu River, once again reversing the tide. They too were pushed back, but MacArthur was forbidden to invade...
...risk. Four years ago, Wonjin Worldwide Corp., a Seoul-based mining company, formed a joint venture to mine and smelt Danchon's graphite, a heat-resistant material used in steelmaking and other industrial applications. The first shipment of 200 tons of graphite arrived in the South's port of Inchon in mid-December, and despite the problems in the North, Wonjin Worldwide now wants to invest more, says Yoon Byung Roh, the company's president. Like other mining-company executives, Yoon knows that North Korea and China between them have roughly 80% of the world's supply of another...
...assets of bankrupt Daewoo Motor for $440 million?and it looked like they overpaid. Daewoo's market share in Korea was shrinking and its factories were running at half their capacity. Union members tried to thwart the deal by rioting around the main factory near the port city of Inchon...
...Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place.? In 1983, the third year of the Razzies, the Worst Actress and Actor booby-prizes went to Pia Zadora for ?The Butterfly? and, for ?Inchon? ... guess ... Laurence Olivier...